An Open-Source XML Framework for Authoring Curricular Material

Author

Christian, Wolfgang ; Belloni, Mario ; Brown, Douglas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Davidson Coll.

Volume

8

Issue

5

fYear

2006

Firstpage

51

Lastpage

58

Abstract

The Open Source Physics (OSP) project is a synergy of curriculum development, computational physics, computer science, and physics education for scientists and students wishing to author interactive computer-based curricular material. This article illustrates how the OSP project combines physical data and XML tags (data and metadata, respectively) with the Launcher authoring tool to give users an easy-to-use and consistent paradigm for creating, modifying, and distributing Java-based curricular material

Keywords

XML; authoring systems; computer aided instruction; open systems; physics computing; physics education; public domain software; Java-based curricular material; Launcher authoring tool; computational physics; curriculum development; interactive computer-based curricular material; open source physics project; open-source XML; physics education; Computational modeling; HTML; Java; Object oriented modeling; Open source software; Physics computing; Physics education; Programming profession; Software libraries; XML; Java; XML; mechanics; open source; physics education; quantum mechanics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computing in Science & Engineering

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1521-9615

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCSE.2006.82

Filename

1677483